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Even the formidable health minister Edwina Hart admitted she was surprised by some of the secretive ways of working that her civil servants operate.

Mrs Hart had launched a massive consultation operation over the future of the NHS, suggesting that she would abolish the local health boards and make various other changes.

Over 800 submissions quickly submerged [...]

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I have been asked whether I knew Christopher Glamorganshire, the civil servant who blogged from the inside on the Labour-Plaid coalition talks. But the truth is that for journalists the Assembly is a bit like a jail.

Once we enter it, we are tightly restricted as to where we can go, by passes which open (or [...]

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NO news today from the Assembly. The only scheduled event - the weekly Lib Dem briefing was cancelled by email:
“Sorry all, No news today, or rather no AMs. So no press briefing.”
That was today’s memo to the press corps in Crickhowell House from Lib Dem press officer Gareth Price.
Bearing in mind the shortage of real [...]

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